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Sunday, November 4, 2012

A Day

Its a very cold day of 17 degrees, too cold I feel for November, though it has happened a couple of times before and I wanted to write some things on my blog. Weather report states Perth for Sunday: Partly cloudy. Scattered showers, heavier in the southeast. Isolated thunderstorms. Winds W 20 to 30 km/h. Mostly sunny. Winds S 20 to 30 km/h turning SE 15 to 25 km/h during the day. A feirce storm erupted while at Church this morning and a good Brother was giving the Gospel Doctrine class. He was wearing Mylink for me to hear what he was saying, but the hail and rain was so heavy it drowned him out on Mylink! Then we had a combined meeting of Relief Society, Priesthood, Young Men and Young Women and the hall was packed. Stake Welfare on the Stake High Council Louis Barlow hit us with Self Reliance and being prepared in a great way and using the Queensland floods and the Sandy disaster in New York as his examples for being ready. I was able to respond to the Queensland floods and how diastrous they were for people who were not prepared and the panic buying it caused even among the saints! But I was feeling rather anxious, bad when you have an ulcer, reviewing the current depleted storehouse and lack of suitable water storage and so forth where I am now. I then felt reassured, for the Lord knows all this and how hard I try. And its time to try harder again. Afterwards I approached Martha Scheltema, 1st Counselor in the Relief Society Presidency for Joy, the President, is away looking after her dying Mum. Last week I gave Martha the list of ideas for food storage, how to keep water, and the one showing how long food will keep. From that a decision was made that I would email it all to our librarian and get her to print out 100 copies for Relief Society and Priesthood next Sunday. Furthermore, starting from the December newsletter a suggested item for the storehouse will be given for that month. Now I feel heaps better, get the word out. So all my blog readers, check your cupboards, and being Western Australia, don't worry about stocking up the freezer for our power blackouts are notorious, unless you have a generator of course. I've got the word out to some of my family, but not to others and that worries me. We cannot be complacent about this thinking it will never happpen to us. New Yorkers thought that, so did Queenslanders.  For the storehouse a little bit each money day goes a long way and only store what you eat and eat what you store. The next blog entry will be those lists. Meanwhile, here's the latest from New York.

Cold front threatens New York recovery after superstorm Sandy
November 04, 20123:33PM
New Yorkers battle cold, exhaustion to wait for fuel

New Yorkers battle cold, exhaustion to wait for fuel
People waited for upwards of 20 hours for the chance to buy fuel even as state officials announce plans to truck in nearly 28 million gallo...
Reuters4 November 2012
 
NYC power supply up, but fuel rationed
SEVERE fuel shortages are threatening New York City's attempt to recover from superstorm Sandy as cold temperatures add to almost a week of misery exacerbated by flooded homes, limited public transport and fraying tempers.
But on the bright side, power was restored to nearly all of Manhattan on Saturday after flooding plunged the lower half of New York City's most densely populated borough and famous skyline into darkness.
Manhattan will no longer resemble "some sort of ghost town or horror movie", said Bob McGee, a spokesman for utility company Con Edison.
Crews were also working to restore supplies to schools, set to reopen on Monday, and to polling places for the presidential election on Tuesday (Wednesday Australian time).
However, 40 per cent of those who lost power, or somewhere under 900,000 people, continued to experience widespread outages that could last for as long as another week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told reporters.

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Rockaway residents gather around a fire following superstorm Sandy at Rockaway Beach in the Queens borough of New York City. Picture: AFP

For many, that meant no heating just as temperatures are dropping in the New York area, with a windy, rainy autumn storm forecast for Wednesday.
On Long Island, 550,000 people are without power, down from 1.2 million people initially, Cuomo said.
Overall, 2.5 million customers remain without power across seven states that were in Sandy's path, the US Department of Energy said.
As New Jersey police raised the state's death toll to 22, increasing the overall US total to at least 103, the biggest hurdle to recovery continued to be a severe lack of petrol.
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Crowds wait for free gas at the Bedford Avenue Armory in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Picture: AFP
Huge lines of cars and people on foot clutching canisters snaked back from petrol stations as New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced fuel rationing on an odd-and-even basis.
Meanwhile, New York officials announced the deployment of military fuel trucks offering 10 gallons (38 litres) of petrol to drivers free of charge.
Cuomo said the critical situation should ease rapidly because delays in the arrival of fuel ships had been remedied.
New figures from the federal Energy Information Administration said 38 per cent of petrol stations around New York were still out of order, sharply down from 67 per cent on Friday.
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Police organise people who are waiting for gas at a station on 96th street on the Upper East Side as the city experiences a gas shortage while recovering from superstorm Sandy in New York. Picture: AFP

The good news included the New York City subway system being 80 per cent up and running.
The transit authority ended the suspension of fares that had allowed New Yorkers to ride free during the calamity's immediate aftermath.
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg also announced that one million school children would be back in class on Monday, although 65 schools were out of service due to damage or because they were being used as temporary shelters.
The US military said it had given emergency officials one million meals to distribute to the needy in New York and New Jersey and would bring a further million next week.
NYC power supply up, but fuel rationed

NYC power supply up, but fuel rationed
Power has been restored across Manhattan, but a petrol shortage is slowing recovery after Hurricane Sandy.
Sky News4 November 2012
 
But frustrations were increasingly boiling over in the worst-hit neighbourhoods.

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Martina Melendez salvages a surfboard from a flooded bungalow following superstorm Sandy at Rockaway Beach in the Queens borough of New York City. Picture: AFP

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People sort through donated clothing on a street corner following Superstorm Sandy at Rockaway Beach in the Queens borough of New York City. Picture: AFP

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People stand on destroyed boardwalk debris from superstorm Sandy at Rockaway Beach in the Queens borough of New York City. Picture: AFP

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The lights of New York's Lower East Side and Chinatown neighborhoods are framed by the Manhattan Bridge. Select neighborhoods of Manhattan are beginning to recover power.

Well, that's New York. Search the blog and you will find Queensland last year
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